By Rashidul Hasan in The Daily Star, Nov 29, 2023The rift between GM Quader and Raushan Ershad, the two most known leaders of the Jatiya Party, has put the parliament’s main opposition in serious trouble. Leader of the opposition and JP chief patron Raushan Ershad and her son Rahgir Almahe Ershad MP yesterday said they would not participate in the January 7 election under the leadership of party Chairman GM Quader. The main reason behind…
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by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, July 6, 2023On Monday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, while addressing a function to launch the book ‘Roads to the Valley: The Legacy of Sardar Pritam Singh in Nepal’, had said that Sardar Pritam Singh, referred to as the pioneer trucking entrepreneur in Nepal, has played a special and historic role in enhancing Nepal-India relations. “He [Singh] had once made efforts to make me the prime minister,” Dahal…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, May 20, 2023The government has overstated the country’s economic performance at a time when its main statistics body has painted a gloomy picture of the economy. Presenting the government’s policies and programmes for the fiscal year 2023-24 in a joint session of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly on Friday, President Ramchandra Paudel said all the sectors were witnessing positive outcomes as a result of…
report in Asian Age, Dhaka, Mar 19,2023Importers are not being able to open letters of credit (LCs) in Bangladesh due to dollar crisis. As a result businessmen are not being able to import necessary commodities from abroad. Under these circumstances goods of 2 trillion taka have been imported from overseas on credit. “Please give us dollars. We cannot open Letters of Credit to import raw materials.” The statement was made by a top businessman who…
by S Dilip Roy in The Daily Star, Dec 23, 2022Teachers and officials engaged in temple-based pre-primary education programmes in Lalmonirhat are in trouble as they are not getting salaries for 18 months. There are 77 temple-based pre-primary schools in 77 temples in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat district where 30-50 students study in each school every day from 9:00am to 12:30pm. According to the sources at Hindu Dharma Kalyan Trust, a 3-year temple-based children and…